Sentence examples for trial workflows from inspiring English sources
Increasingly adopted Electronic Data Capture EDCC) applications provide novel opportunities to reutilize stored information for an efficient management of traceable trial workflows.
This paper describes a method for modeling clinical trial workflow in UML and standardizing these workflow diagrams through a UML profile.
Such variation in clinical practice guidelines among emerging sites has ethical implications, as well as implications on the trial workflow and validity of results.
Given the rapid global expansion of clinical trials, the creation of standard nomenclature for clinical trial workflow representation can facilitate the analysis and comparison of workflows across international sites.
This paper's objective is to develop a UML profile to extend the UML Activity Diagram schema into the clinical trials domain, defining a standard representation for clinical trial workflow diagrams in UML.
The objective of this study was to design a UML profile to extend the UML AD schema into the clinical trial domain, thereby defining a standard representation for clinical trial workflow diagrams modeled in UML at different sites.
We should also note that while this paper makes progress towards developing a standardized computational representation for clinical trial workflow, much work remains to be done in order to establish a true standard representation.
Third, the nurses appear to be busy throughout the workflow, and so it appears that making sure that their participation in the workflow runs efficiently at all times may have the greatest overall impact on the efficiency of the clinical trial workflow.
For example, if we could have used our UML profile to limit the potential descriptors of Opaque Actions in UML ADs to only those terms from a standardized list of clinical trial activities, we could have effectively promoted the use of a single, standardized vocabulary in the creation of UML ADs modeling clinical trial workflow.
To this end, a UML profile for clinical trial workflow might specify attributes which facilitate the gathering of data for a time-motion study [20] to allow comparisons of efficiency in line with the NIH roadmap goal of re-engineering clinical research [21].
The trial workflow and treatment arms are depicted in Figure 1.
